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Your article on Jonathan Franzen for The American Scene was not open for comments so I'm hitting you up here: you seem to be saying that in the new contemporary fiction there's a question about the "suitability" of "ordinary people" as subjects for a novel.

Quite different from the "old" writers like Dostoyevsky, Dickens, Flaubert, and so on -- who somehow were able to take plain 'ole folks and make them fascinating.

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Commentary on technologies of reading, writing, research, and, generally, knowledge. As these technologies change and develop, what do we lose, what do we gain, what is (fundamentally or trivially) altered? And, not least, what's fun?